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Owner: United States Army
Model:GE 80TonnerBuilt As:USN 65-00298 (80Tonner)
Serial Number:27861Order No:281-8011
Frame Number:Built:5/1945
Notes:ex-North Island Naval Air Station 27
Other locos with this serial:  USN 65-00298(80Tonner) PLA 298(80Tonner) USAX 298(80Tonner)
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USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army #298, a GE 80-ton centercab switcher, leads a Niles Canyon Railway Saturday excursion train into the Niles Depot.
Photo Date:  7/31/2011  Upload Date: 3/10/2012 3:11:11 AM
Location:  Niles, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  588   Comments: 0
Brightside Yard
Title:  Brightside Yard
Description:  Locomotives at Brightside Yard sits quite as we pass by them on the Niles Canyon Railway's 2011 Train of Lights.
Photo Date:  12/19/2011  Upload Date: 3/10/2012 4:23:54 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SP 5623(GP9) USAX 7348(65Tonner ) USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  621   Comments: 0
Brightside Yard
Title:  Brightside Yard
Description:  Two center cab diesels resting at the Brightside yard.
Photo Date:  3/24/2012  Upload Date: 6/26/2012 8:03:13 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Joseph Cliscagne
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  USAX 7348(65Tonner ) USAX 298(80Tonner) SP 2472(4-6-2) OTR 101(DS44-1000)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army #298, a GE 80-Tonner, sits parked in Brightside Yard (located along the Niles Canyon Railway).
Photo Date:  2/3/2013  Upload Date: 2/9/2013 3:45:01 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army #298, a GE 80-Tonner, sits parked in Brightside Yard (located along the Niles Canyon Railway).
Photo Date:  2/3/2013  Upload Date: 2/12/2013 9:12:43 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
Switching Brightside
Title:  Switching Brightside
Description:  Southern Pacific NW2 #1423 pulls the Southern Pacific #9010, the last remaining Krauss-Maffei diesel-hydraulic locomotive, out of the restoration shop at the Niles Canyon Railways Brightside Yard for a day out on the mainline for her 50th birthday. Unfortunately, to reach the 9010, the SP 1423 has to drag three other locomotives (including 9010s pusher, Southern Pacific SD9 #5472) with it.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/23/2014 1:58:49 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 1423(NW2) USAX 298(80Tonner) RPRC 1195(SW900) SP 5472(SD9) SP 9010(UNKNOWN)
Views:  771   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army 80-Tonner #298 gets switched around Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/23/2014 2:08:33 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Switching Brightside
Title:  Switching Brightside
Description:  Apparently, it takes four locomotives to pull the Southern Pacific #9010, the last remaining German Krauss-Maffei ML4000CC diesel-hydraulic locomotive, out of the Niles Canyon Railways restoration shop.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/23/2014 2:18:24 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 9010(UNKNOWN) SP 5472(SD9) RPRC 1195(SW900) USAX 298(80Tonner) SP 1423(NW2)
Views:  1264   Comments: 0
Vintage Diesels
Title:  Vintage Diesels
Description:  Southern Pacific NW2 #1423 switches equipment around at the Niles Canyon Railway's Brightside Yard.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/23/2014 2:34:49 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RPRC 1195(SW900) USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army 80-Tonner #298 gets switched around Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 5/23/2014 2:39:00 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
SP 1423 Switching
Title:  SP 1423 Switching
Description:  Southern Pacific NW2 #1423 switches locomotives (including USAX 298 and RPRC 1195) in Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 9:17:43 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  WP 713(GP7) USAX 298(80Tonner) SP 1423(NW2) RPRC 1195(SW900)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Brightside Yard
Title:  Brightside Yard
Description:  Southern Pacific NW2 #1423 switches locomotives in Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway while Western Pacific GP7 #713 sits shut down.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 9:21:17 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 1423(NW2) WP 713(GP7) USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army 80-Tonner #298 gets switched around Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 10:21:57 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  163   Comments: 0
USAX 298
Title:  USAX 298
Description:  US Army 80-Tonner #298 gets switched around Brightside Yard at the Niles Canyon Railway.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/25/2014 2:58:37 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
SP 1423 Switching
Title:  SP 1423 Switching
Description:  Southern Pacific NW2 #1423 switches equipment around at the Niles Canyon Railways Brightside Yard.
Photo Date:  5/10/2014  Upload Date: 11/25/2014 3:02:21 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Jamie West
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  SP 1423(NW2) USAX 298(80Tonner) RPRC 1195(SW900)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
Tonner
Title:  Tonner
Description:  Another of the Niles fleet, that Ive actually ridden behind. This one is a former Marine.
Photo Date:  6/7/2014  Upload Date: 7/6/2014 6:06:19 PM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Liam Hart
Categories: 
Locomotives:  USAX 298(80Tonner)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
WP 713
Title:  WP 713
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/19/2017  Upload Date: 2/26/2018 9:06:10 AM
Location:  Brightside, CA
Author:  Matthew Ginkel
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  WP 713(GP7) SP 5472(SD9) SP 5623(GP9) SP 1218(S6) RPRC 1195(SW900) USAX 298(80Tonner) USAX 7348(65Tonner )
Views:  692   Comments: 0


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